The Wild Ones

Six years. That seems such a long time to have been without Karen. I don’t think I set out to create a tradition of musical remembrances, but looking back at previous entries that’s how it seems to have turned out.

I’m quite happy with that, after all music is an important facet of life for me. It was also a big shared interest between Karen and me - our musical tastes were quite different, but there was a lot of overlap. We often introduced each other to new bands or music that we’d discovered, or at least, we did once she’d outgrown Bros and Jason Donovan…

The most obvious example of this is Suede. Karen was a big fan of theirs, but I didn’t really rate them until she lent me Dog Man Star. That was the first of many Suede albums that I bought, and still my favourite by a long chalk. So what better a choice for this year’s song?

Well, actually it’s quite a melancholic album, whilst I was looking for something more optimistic and up-beat. Still, The Wild Ones (as one of the less gloomy tracks) it is…

“We’ll be the wild ones, running with the dogs today.”